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The Free Cheese

The Free Cheese

The Free Cheese is a weekly video game podcast about video games, brought to you once a week by The Free Cheese dot com. Hosted by Joe Dix and Matt Soellner. Opening theme The Origin by Legna Zeg.

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The Free Cheese Episode 644: Bloodrayne

The Free Cheese ·

2026/01/12

This week on The Free Cheese, the year of the vampire. For the first game in Season 14, we explore the early 2000s by way of its vampire assassin, female lead character action hack-and-slash genre. Or as you might call it, Bloodrayne. We take Rayne on a journey around the world, one button at a time.

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01:25:45

The Free Cheese Episode 643: Season 14 Premiere

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2026/01/05

This week on The Free Cheese, 2026 begins! It is time for our favorite episode of the year, a look ahead at the year to come. We reflect on predictions made one year ago, then set our sights on the months ahead as hope is not yet dead. 2026 invites us to celebrate a number of anniversaries in video games, but which ones will make our dreams come true?

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02:11:49

The Free Cheese Episode 642: Season 13 Finale | Part II

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2025/12/29

This week on The Free Cheese, 2025 is over. We talk about everything we didn't talk about during the podcast this year. We each share the games we played that weren't covered on the show, the obsessions we found ourselves sliding into, and how certain themes layered our year. Then, we look at some of the news highlights from 2025 and check in with each of the platforms.

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01:16:34

The Free Cheese Episode 641: Season 13 Finale | Part I

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2025/12/22

This week on The Free Cheese, this is the end of right now but there is more to come! In the first half of our two-part Season 13 finale, we're looking back at the episodes from this year and the games we played. We take a look at The List in different formats, ranking it individually and by review scores.

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01:35:34

The Free Cheese Episode 640: Retro Magazine Read |...

The Free Cheese ·

2025/12/15

This week on The Free Cheese, can't someone else do it? We celebrate the end of the quarter century and the return of Game Informer by reading its 92nd issue from December 2000. We explore its cover story, read through its letters, previews, and reviews. Then, we have a scavenger hunt through the magazine to discover some of what has been lost to time.

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57:52

The Free Cheese Episode 639: Fighting Force

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2025/12/08

This week on The Free Cheese, did you know that cars blow up after just six punches? When Eidos set out to create a new Streets of Rage, Sega passed and instead we got Fighting Force. We play through its campaign, discuss how cool it is to pick up anything in the environment, and see how well this brawler holds up almost three decades after its release.

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01:22:05

The Free Cheese Episode 638: Resident Evil 6

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2025/12/01

This week on The Free Cheese, we're going to China. We join up and play through the campaign of Resident Evil 6 cooperatively to see why this entry was so divisive at the time of its release. We discuss each of the campaigns in the game, what Capcom got right, and where we think the series started to drift too far away from its origins.

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44:10

The Free Cheese Episode 637: Animal Crossing | Part...

The Free Cheese ·

2025/11/24

This week on The Free Cheese, we escape the demands of a raccoon tyrant. As our year of Animal Crossing comes to a close, we start by looking back at the game's changes and updates for the fall season. We share thoughts around the staying power of a living game like this and reflect on a full year of playing. Finally, we close out by ranking Animal Crossing on The List.

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01:29:03

The Free Cheese Episode 636: Suikoden

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2025/11/17

This week on The Free Cheese, don't drink the tea on Mt. Tigerwolf. We wander the world of Suikoden to collect the 108 Stars of Destiny and save the world. After years of hearing the fan adoration of the series, we finally see what Konami's exploration into the role-playing game has to offer. We discuss the little things that make Suikoden great, like its snappy menus and combat, as well as how much story is packed into just 20 hours of gameplay.

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01:15:55

The Free Cheese Episode 635: System Shock

The Free Cheese ·

2025/11/10

This week on The Free Cheese, there's always a... wait. We explore Citadel Station in Nightdive Studios' remake of the seminal System Shock. We discuss the game's presentation and its reliance on your active participation as a player, as well as what that means in the long run.

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01:25:46

The Free Cheese Episode 634: Monster Hunter Wilds

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2025/11/03

This week on The Free Cheese, the Guild authorizes you to engage with this podcast. Monster Hunter Wilds launched near the beginning of this year and we jumped in together right away. In this episode, we cover our time with the campaign, what it's like to finally have crossplay and an open world in Monster Hunter, and how Monster Hunter Wilds handles teaching the game to new players.

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01:06:29

The Free Cheese Episode 633: PlayStation 2 | 25th...

The Free Cheese ·

2025/10/27

This week on The Free Cheese, what ever happened to Y2K? After ranking it our number one console a few years ago, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the PlayStation 2 by sharing our favorite games, the best features of the console, and what its legacy is today.

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57:45

The Free Cheese Episode 632: Zombies Ate My Neighbors

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2025/10/20

This week on The Free Cheese, there's a lot more than zombies to talk about. Who knew we would be tackling two difficult games back to back? Zombies Ate My Neighbors brings over forty levels of various challenges with themes that take us outside of the neighborhood against many different monster types from classic horror tropes. We discuss our time with the game and what surprised us about playing this classic title, then rank it on The List.

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01:02:55

The Free Cheese Episode 631: Blood

The Free Cheese ·

2025/10/13

This week on The Free Cheese, how do you like your meat? We play Monolith Productions' debut title, exploring the world of Doom clones as they'd reached a peak. We discuss the unique setting of Blood, its campaign, and its difficulty.

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01:21:14

The Free Cheese Episode 630: Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

The Free Cheese ·

2025/10/06

This week on The Free Cheese, whipping up a frenzy. We are finally adding a Castlevania game to The List and we're doing it with the final entry in what we now consider the classic Castlevania experience. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood shows Konami at a high point and for the series, it presents a shift in design while honoring the games that preceded it. We'll look deep at its stages, characters, and combat as we discuss our time spent with the game before ranking it.

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52:10

The Free Cheese Episode 629: D2

The Free Cheese ·

2025/09/29

This week on The Free Cheese, come, stay, and let me tell you about knife's prophecy! We're lost in the Canadian wilderness, wandering our way through the snow to figure out where monsters come from. Playing D2 for the Dreamcast, we control Laura after a plane crash leads the digital actress toward discovering her destiny.

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01:26:06

The Free Cheese Episode 628: Games of the Century

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2025/09/22

This week on The Free Cheese, they made 25 years already? Reflecting on the two and a half decade of video games released since the year 2000, we share our top ten and why we picked them. We also discuss how games have and have not changed in that time and what we expect will be in our top ten in 2050.

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48:27

The Free Cheese Episode 627: Otogi: Myth of Demons

The Free Cheese ·

2025/09/15

This week on The Free Cheese, none shall pass! Let's check out the FromSoftware experience set in ancient Japan. No, the other one. We're playing Otogi: Myth of Demons to see how it holds up today and what DNA we recognize in the studio's games that followed.

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59:39

The Free Cheese Episode 626: Left 4 Dead

The Free Cheese ·

2025/09/08

This week on The Free Cheese, quick! Turn off your flashlight, she'll see us! We join up and play through the campaigns in Left 4 Dead, hoping our non-playable companions don't set off any car alarms. After surviving multiple runs and attempts on our survival, we make it out to bring Turtle Rock Studios' and Valve's first foray into co-op survival gameplay onto The List.

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01:12:06

The Free Cheese Episode 625 | Deus Ex: Part II

The Free Cheese ·

2025/09/01

This week on The Free Cheese, we immerse ourselves in the simulation. After spending the summer in Deus Ex, we both finally get it when people are really into these games. After things have clicked into place, we share stories about how we each dealt with different areas in the game, how we built our characters, and some of the weird traps we were able to set. Then, we close out by ranking it on The List.

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